Italian actor Asia Argento is among the leading activists of the #MeToo movement against sexual abuse in Hollywood. She was one of the first women to publicly accuse film producer Harvey Weinstein of abuse.

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Now, a young actor and musician says Argento sexually assaulted him.

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The New York Times reports that Argento recently reached a financial settlement with the accuser, Jimmy Bennett.

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Bennett, who is 22, reportedly had filed documents describing the claim of assault and his plan to sue Argento.

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Bennet says Argento had sex with him in a California hotel in 2013. He had just turned 17 years old. Argento was 37 at the time. The age of sexual consent in California is 18.

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The documents say the experience harmed Bennett mentally and hurt his career, the Times reported.

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The New York Times says it received court documents that included a picture of Argento and Bennett in bed together. Three people close to the case said the documents were real, the Times reported.

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Argento reportedly agreed to pay Bennett $380,000.

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Argento and Bennett co-starred in a 2004 film called "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things." In the movie, Argento played a sex worker who was Bennett's mother.

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Argento is one of the best-known activists of the #MeToo movement. Last year, she told the New Yorker magazine that Weinstein raped her at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 when she was 21 years old.

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Argento told the magazine that she continued to have a relationship with Weinstein because she was afraid of angering him.

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Weinstein has been charged with sex crimes against three women. Argento is not one of them.

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重点解析

1.sexual abuse 性侵犯

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Girls and women in these jobs are exceptionally vulnerable to sexual abuse.

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从事这类工作的女孩和妇女特别容易受到性侵害e~b5H^8S[P!]。

2.film producer 电影制作人

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Her marriage to film producer Michael Greenburg fell apart.

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她和电影制片人迈克尔·格林伯格的婚姻破裂了dKe4Cfrx^ZYcl(*。

3.sex crimes 性犯罪

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He is wanted for questioning about sex crimes.

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他还因性犯罪问题受到通缉W(&vVlug8dvTX。

4.financial settlement 经济赔偿

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The Indian billionaire said the agreement does not include a financial settlement.

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这位印度的亿万富翁还说，这项协议不包括经济赔偿@9m,)EvfPwv。

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5.The New York Times reports that Argento recently reached a financial settlement with the accuser, Jimmy Bennett.